Fox Business show slams Seattle as ‘socialist hellhole’

Originally published July 13, 2017 at 2:23 pm
Updated July 13, 2017 at 3:50 pm

Seattle used to be one of the most beautiful and livable cities in the world, but it has devolved into a socialist hellhole, according to Fox Business. (Fox News)

In the opening of her Fox Business show “Kennedy,” Lisa Kennedy Montgomery called the Seattle City Council “commies” and “do-gooder authoritarians,” and called Seattle a city “where freedom died along with every good singer from the ’90s.”

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Fox Business host Lisa Kennedy Montgomery opened her show with a chyron that said “Senseless in Seattle,” and called the Seattle City Council communists for its minimum-wage law, gun tax and recent vote on an income tax on the wealthy.

Montgomery also pointed to Seattle’s gun tax, which puts a $25 tax on every firearm sold in the city and up to 5 cents on every round of ammunition. She said shootings are “skyrocketing” since the gun tax was enacted, although police have attributed a recent rise in gun violence to a gang war in Seattle and South King County.

“Good job, commies!” Montgomery said.

Montgomery also criticized “the red geniuses” on the Seattle City Council who on Monday approved a tax on the wealthy — a 2.25 percent tax on income above $250,000 a year for individuals and above $500,000 for couples. She said the rich will move to Bellevue, “where Bill Gates lives,” to avoid it. Bill Gates actually lives in Medina.

“Save yourself the airfare for that trip to Caracas,” Montgomery said. “Just head to Seattle instead, where freedom died along with every good singer from the ’90s.”